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Bug 42857

Summary:	[CVS Repo View] Browse Attic in repo view
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Oyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe>
Component:	Team	Assignee:	Platform Team Inbox <platform-team-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cytisus
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Oyvind Harboe

2003-09-10 07:41:52 EDT

I haven't found a way to manipulate deleted files that are under CVS.

Example:

1. Create a new project
2. Commit in some files.
3. Delete all files in project.
4. Commit the deletions.

From the CVS perspective, try to examine one of the deleted files.


Øyvind

Comment 1 Michael Valenta

2003-09-10 08:50:45 EDT

There is a Team>Restore from Repository command which allows you to restore 
any files that are in the CVS Attic (i.e. deleted from HEAD). Try it on the 
project.

Comment 2 Oyvind Harboe

2003-09-10 08:58:19 EDT

>There is a Team>Restore from Repository command which allows you 
>to restore any files that are in the CVS Attic (i.e. deleted from 
>HEAD). Try it on the project.

I see.

It is rather hidden, especially when the starting point is to restore files 
from deleted projects...

How about adding a "Restore project" that is a shortcut for checking out as a 
project and then bringing the user directly to "Team->Restore"?

Øyvind

Comment 3 Michael Valenta

2003-09-10 09:09:28 EDT

The workflow as I see it is:

1) You have a project locally and you want to restore a deleted file from the 
repository.
2) You go to the Team menu because that's where all the repository related 
actions are
3) You choose Restore from Repository and see all the deleted files
4) You pick the one you want.

I don't understand why someone would delete all the files in a project. This 
seems to me to be a very rare case. Given this, a Restore Project in the 
repositories view would be confusing in most cases since usually projects 
would already have files in them.

Comment 4 Oyvind Harboe

2003-09-10 09:16:28 EDT

>The workflow as I see it is:
>
>1) You have a project locally and you want to restore a deleted 
>file from the repository.

Actually, my starting point was that I didn't have a project locally.

Why not list deleted files in the CVS repository view? 

That way I could examine the history of deleted files without checking out the 
project.

>I don't understand why someone would delete all the files in a project. 

Thats common enough. When a project is deleted, all files are deleted from the 
project.

In my case I had a project that became obsolete, so I deleted it. Later on I 
discovered that I needed to examine the changes I did.

Øyvind

Comment 5 Michael Valenta

2003-09-10 09:23:39 EDT

I'll buy that. But all we can do from the repo view is browse since we don't 
support file checkout.

Comment 6 Michael Valenta

2005-02-07 14:13:01 EST

*** Bug 84160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 John Kaniarz

2005-02-09 10:53:50 EST

(In reply to comment #6)
> *** Bug 84160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I just wanted to point out that this affects more then just deleted files. 
Files that were added to a branch, but not the trunk are only stored in the Attic.

Comment 8 Michael Valenta

2005-05-09 14:37:04 EDT

There is currently no plan to address this item.

Comment 9 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:23:54 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.